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Wednesday, 9 September 2026
13 facts about tears
13 facts about tears
Multipurpose liquid
Associated with emotions, tears are a product of lacrimal glands, found in the eyes of most terrestrial vertebrates. Although their primary function i ...

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lava
Lava can take many different forms.
Common forms are aa, pahoehoe and pillow lava.
Mushrooms
The science that studies fungi is mycology. Mycologists have developed several classification systems for fungi.
A less official classification groups fungi due to: Thallus form - large-fruited fungi and microsco ...
NASA
The Super Soaker squirt gun, a popular toy, was invented by a NASA scientist.
Deimos
The surface of Deimos is covered with a few craters.
These craters are less visible than on the other moon because they are filled with regolith (rock dust).
Deimos
The two largest craters of Deimos are approximately 3 kilometers in diameter: Swift and Voltaire.
They were named after two writers who claimed that Mars had two moons before this was proven.
Aurora
It is believed that the aurora phenomenon may occur on all other extrasolar planets that have a magnetic field and a magnetosphere exposed to stellar winds.
The resolution of the telescopes does not make it possible to capture an image of this phenomenon, but the emission of radio waves accompanying the aurora can be detected using radio telescopes.
Milky Way
Within a radius of 200 thousand, There are as many as 22 galaxies light years from the Milky Way.
All these objects are within the range of the Milky Way's gas halo and are its satellites. The largest of them are the Large Magellanic Cloud, SagDEG, Ursa Major II, and Toucan II.
Anorexia Nervosa
The history of anorexia begins with descriptions of religious fasts dating from the Hellenistic era to the medieval period.
Many famous historical figures are believed to have suffered from the disease, including Catherine of Siena, and Mary, Queen of Scots.
Deimos
The Swift Crater is 1 km in diameter while the Voltaire Crater is 1.9 km in diameter.
They are located close to each other in the northern hemisphere, right near the prime meridian.
Phobos
The largest impact crater on the surface of Phobos is called Stickney, its diameter is up to 10 kilometers.
It was named after Asaph Hall’s wife, Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall, a mathematician. A collision that formed Stickney crater could have shattered the moon.